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Research & Instructional Technologist

Submitted by STulley on Tue, 2016-10-04 13:28

Posted to IASSIST on:

2016-10-03

Employer:

Wellesley College

Employer URL:

http://www.wellesley.edu/

Description:

The Research and Instruction Technologist for Data and GIS
provides technical and pedagogical support for the growing data-driven
research and statistical and geospatial instruction at Wellesley
College. Principal tasks will center on assisting faculty and students
across natural science, social science, and humanities disciplines, in
finding, creating, and analyzing a wide variety of data for classroom
assignments and research projects.

This position provides technical support for software such as Stata, SPSS, R, JMP,
ArcGIS, and Excel through individual consultations, classroom
instruction, and technical workshops. As a member of the Scholarly
Innovations team, this position thinks strategically about the larger
use of data and mapping at the college, exploring relationships with
other digital scholarship initiatives and expanding methods for faculty
and student research across disciplines.

This position collaborates closely with faculty, librarian and
technologist colleagues across Library and Technology Services, the
Director of the Quantitative Analysis Institute, and other campus
partners to develop and lead new initiatives for data analysis and
mapping, and to create an integrated support model for the wide range of
academic software and research/teaching needs currently and potentially
in use across campus.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:

Appropriate degree (B.S./B.A.) and 3-5 years of experience in a related field.

Substantial experience with statistical/quantitative data analysis.

Substantial experience in at least one major statistical software application in use at Wellesley (SPSS, Stata, R, JMP) or Arc GIS as well as Microsoft Excel.

Willingness and ability to become proficient in other Wellesley supported statistical and mapping tools.

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